GOP Candidate Says Deport Farmworkers, Make Blacks Work in The Fields

GOP Candidate Says Deport Farmworkers, Make Blacks Work in The Fields

NewsTaco March 16, 2011

How do you get a group of Republican politicians to run away from you as fast as they can? Say something stupid like this, reported in the BuffaloNews.com, in the […]

Kansas Rep: Shoot Undocumented From Helicopters Like Hogs

NewsTaco March 15, 2011

I’m not sure where to begin this, it’s so beyond incredible. Republican Kansas state Rep. Virgil Peck suggested yesterday that undocumented immigrants be shot from a helicopter, like they do to feral hogs. […]

The Economics Of Deciding In An Uncertain World

Mary Mata

[Editor’s Note: The following was written by economist Robert Cavazos] How do people make decisions? How do we make sense of the world? Per our policymakers, grounded upon the whispers […]

Utah Latinos Raise the Boycott Flag, Even Against Their Own

NewsTaco

A group of Latinos in Utah is digging deep into the bag of civil protest tactics to make its point. They’re calling for a good-old-fashioned boycott. The Utah twist is that they […]

Latinos – Believe it or Not – Are Thriving in Tuscaloosa

NewsTaco March 14, 2011

Toosca-donde? Talk about a Latino population boom! (more like a bang, but we won’t go there, for obvious reasons). The number of Latinos in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has almost tripled in the last […]

Homemade Bomb Targeted at Latino Family in Mississippi

NewsTaco March 11, 2011

For no apparent reason, except what the authorities in DeSoto County, Mississippi are thinking is racial violence, a chemical bomb was placed in the mailbox of a Latino family – […]

Chipotle Workers Exodus in DC and Virgina

NewsTaco March 10, 2011

According to news reports workers at Chipotle restaurants in Washington DC and Virginia have been leaving in droves since immigration officials announced that they were auditing restaurants in the area. […]

Latino Children are Now the Majority in California

NewsTaco March 9, 2011

The Census numbers are out for California and there’re two big stories to talk about; first, that Latino children are now the majority in California, and second, that as Latinos […]

Latinos Changing Small Town America

NewsTaco March 8, 2011

The weekly unfolding of Census numbers has been fun to watch. Every day there’s more concrete evidence of the wide-spread Latino growth and presence across the US.  Places that we generally regard […]

News Taco To Go: Charlie Sheen, Libya, McDonald’s, Guantanamo And Mexico

Mary Mata

Charlie Sheen was fired from his job at “Two and a Half Men” after his antics over the past few weeks, which included rants, seeming drug use and anti-Semitic comments. Libyan […]